I think it is just that typical inexplicable continental European penchant for conformity. If you don’t look German enough, you’ll get stared on the streets of Germany. If you wear burkini in France, you’ll know what happen. If you wear bright coloured suit, you are suddenly inviting people to gossip about you.
Their idea of personal freedom is not exactly universal as in the Anglo-Saxon world that we are all very familiar with, but rather conceptual. For example, to be free for them, means to be naked, showing more skin, and being comfortable in public. The Murricans and Brits taught us that their brand of personal freedom means that you can appear as ridiculous as you like, and the Brits will maintain their stiff upper lip, and the Americans won’t bat an eye. For the Continental Europeans, freedom has an exact definition, for most of us who are more familiar toward’s the Anglo-Saxon idea, we are so shocked at how a free western nation decided to police sports attire.
For long, I never understand European sense of “modesty”. Cleavage and back baring gowns are “elegant” and “formal”, yet a full skin-covering suit is not? I mean, back in the early 2000s, women’s tennis were indeed “a feast for straight gentlrmen’s or lesbian ladies’ eyes”
It is very distracting and from the actual game and let alone the potential objectifications that might arise. How about women who, on her own conscience, decided to wear less revealing dress? And for medical reason? For her own safety?
Honestly, I couldn’t see why a semi-diving suit that covers the majority of Serena’s skin to be an issue. I believe it is just their stone-headed conviction about fashion conformity.
Not racism
To those who bring skin colours to this argument: you are just a cheap SJW, which is why people will never look again at this kind of issue seriously.
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